Thorncreek Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m950 ft 290 m930 ft 285 m890 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m820 ft 250 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Thorncreek Township sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 280 m
most residents: 860–950 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the south side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the northeast side
Average
910 ft 275 m
all land inside township boundaries
Thorncreek Township spans about 180 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 910 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 820 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Thorncreek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Whitley County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 4,246 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.2 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 121 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2288° N, 85.4727° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Eel River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Merriam940 ft
- Etna-Troy Township920 ft
- Thorncreek Township910 ft
- Tri-Lakes910 ft
- Noble Township, Noble County910 ft
- Big Lake900 ft
- Bear Lake900 ft
- Smith Township890 ft
- Columbia City860 ft
- Columbia Township860 ft
- Union Township, Whitley County840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana307th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Whitley County3rd highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Diamond Hill1,040 ft
- The Knobs990 ft
- Dunham Hill950 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 820 ft at 41.1815° N, 85.4665° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.